Here's Some Stupid For Lunch

Brad DeLong flagsa great Twitterfuffle involving our old favorite, Ron (Keep Up The Fight) Fournier, onetime Karl Rove fluffernutter and current searcher after Leadership. Some folks have pointed out -- as we have here -- that Tom Cotton, the wingnut pheeenom running for the Senate in Arkansas, is running a fundamentally dishonest campaign for the U.S. Senate in Arkansas. Basically, Cotton's moving heaven and earth trying to dodge the fact that he cast a base-nuzzling, but basically suicidal, vote against the Farm Bill. First, he accused the president of having "linked" the food-stamp program to the farm bill, ignoring the fact that they have been two parts of the same whole for decades. Now, it appears, he's launched an ad in which he explains that giving (largely white) farmers money is OK, but that giving food-stamp relief to those (largely black) urban moochers is not. It's all arrant nonsense. Some people called Cotton on it. Fournier jumped in from his customary perch on Mount Clueless. He got teased. Then he retired, complaining about "name-calling." Read the thread. Find where anyone called anyone else a name.

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